Fiscal Responsibility

By Dena Bonnell

Maintining a strong financial position while making necessary infrastructure upgrades to our water storage capacity and sewer and water lines.

The infrastructure of the City is old and aging. In addition to our annual Capital Improvement projects we need to increase our water storage capacity and rebuild miles of sewer and water lines. We only have one dayıs worth of potable water storage capacity and need to add at least one more storage facility at a cost of millions of dollars. Our sewer and water lines are needing increasing maintenance and are very old. This project, too, will cost millions of dollars. I suggest we use the annual carryover funds from the prior yearıs budget to begin funding these projects. This yearıs carryover may be six million dollars which would be a good start to funding these very expensive and vital projects.